在Steves Jobs的Thoughts on Flash推出後，引起相當多的迴響，有相當多的意見與文章。其中有三篇文章除了評論Steves Jobs的文章以外，還道出了一些比較不為人知的故事。
第一篇是Middleware and Section 3.3.1
One such “painful experience”, from Apple’s perspective, would be Metrowerks’s PowerPlant framework. PowerPlant was a GUI toolkit and application framework for the classic Mac OS, which shipped with Metrowerks’s CodeWarrior compiler and IDE. It was very good, and very popular — many popular Mac apps were built using the PowerPlant framework.
在Steves Jobs的文章裡提到了讓第三方開發平台帶來的「痛苦經驗」，但是這個痛苦經驗是什麼呢？JOHN GRUBER認為是Metrowerks的PowerPlant framework。當蘋果從OS 9過渡到OS X時，因為PowerPlant framework非常普及又沒有跟著OS X支援新的API，造成大量建築在PowerPlant framework之上的軟體沒辦法跟著OS X的腳步前進。PowerPlant framework成為Apple在發展OS X的痛。
第二篇是The Real Story Behind Adobe’s Failed Mobile Strategy
But within the past few years, Adobe’s focus shifted from being at the top of its class solely to growing its bottom line. Cost-cutting became the company’s priority as each year brought no less than 10% in staff cuts. Naturally, the engineering teams became demoralized as they knew every Q4, after they shipped the product they were working on and after putting in long hours, their jobs could be shipped out as well. The executive team’s quality-killing concentration on profits started adversely affecting not only the products that made Adobe what it is today, but also its design strategy and adaptability to the changing industry.
這篇文章的可看之處在於把Adobe這邊的故事。不管Flash VS HTML5之間的技術細節誰是誰非，這篇文章解答了Flash這邊本身的許多問題。為什麼Flash問題這麼多？過去Flash Lite的成功怎麼沒有維持下去？對我來說，還有為什麼CS5系列品質這麼讓人不滿意？（尤其是Fireworks CS5最為誇張）
第三篇是The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
I’ve got a theory, and it’s this: Steve Jobs believes he’s gambling Apple’s future — the future of a corporation with a market cap well over US $200Bn — on an all-or-nothing push into a new market. HP have woken up and smelled the forest fire, two or three years late; Microsoft are mired in a tar pit, unable to grasp that the inferno heading towards them is going to burn down the entire ecosystem in which they exist. There is the smell of panic in the air, and here’s why …
這篇文章的試圖分析Steve Jobs對Flash開火的真正原音。Steve Jobs討厭Flash可能不是因為現在表面上的技術問題，也可能不是因為Steve Jobs所謂最重要的第六點，而是為了十年後或是更久之後的大戰略。相當精彩的文章。
這三篇文章剛好代表了過去，現在與未來，在這邊推薦大家閱讀。